Fanning River area, Grypophyllum-Chostophyllum association (Devonian to of Australia)

Where: Queensland, Australia (19.7° S, 146.4° E: paleocoordinates 9.7° S, 153.8° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Burdekin Formation (Fanning River Group), Eifelian to Eifelian (393.3 - 382.7 Ma)

• top of the Big Bend Arkose and base of the Burdekin Formation

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified, sandy limestone and lithified, calcareous sandstone

• corals as thickets or clusters, pioneer phase of carbonate sedimenation over the siliciclastic sea floor

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: Y. Zhen. 1996. Succession of coral associations during a Givetian transgressive-regressive cycle in Queensland. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 41(1):59-88 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 80374: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Falko Reichel on 15.04.2008

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Anthozoa
 Stauriida - Fasciphyllidae
 Stauriida - Stringophyllidae
 Stauriida - Ptenophyllidae
Grypophyllum sp. Wedekind 1922 horn coral
Grypophyllum curvatum Hill 1942 horn coral
Dohmophyllum clarkei Hill 1942 horn coral
Acanthophyllum (Acanthophyllum) "sp. A" Dybowski 1873 horn coral
 Stauriida - Stauriidae
 Stauriida - Endophyllidae
Sanidophyllum sp. Etheridge 1899 horn coral
 Stauriida - Columnariidae
Planetophyllum sp. Crickmay 1960 horn coral
 Stauriida - Disphyllidae
Aristophyllum planotabulatum n. sp. Zhen 1994 horn coral
 Cystiphyllida - Cystiphyllidae
Lythophyllum proliferum n. sp. Zhen 1994 horn coral
 Cystiphyllida - Goniophyllidae
Calceola sandalina Linnaeus 1771 horn coral
 Rugosa - Charactophyllidae
Charactophyllum (Charactophyllum) sp. Simpson 1900 horn coral
Chostophyllum sp. Pedder 1982 horn coral
Chostophyllum ? gregorii Etheridge 1892 horn coral
Temnophyllum sp. Walther 1928 horn coral